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1. "In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished." ~ Leland Stanford

2. "There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen." ~ Leland Stanford

3. "When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal." ~ Leland Stanford

4. "All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed." ~ Leland Stanford

5. "Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce." ~ Leland Stanford

6. "Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers." ~ Leland Stanford

7. "The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems." ~ Leland Stanford

8. "The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor." ~ Leland Stanford

9. "Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other." ~ Leland Stanford

10. "Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association." ~ Leland Stanford

11. "The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done." ~ Leland Stanford

12. "Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights." ~ Leland Stanford

13. "The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none." ~ Leland Stanford

14. "Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends." ~ Leland Stanford

15. "The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized." ~ Leland Stanford

16. "The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance." ~ Leland Stanford

17. "Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire." ~ Leland Stanford

18. "In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed." ~ Leland Stanford

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